Poor Book 1765
Moneys Disburst by Wm. Aspden Overseer of the poor of the Higher Town of Great Harwood for the year of our Lord One Thousand 1765
Town Dr. to Last Year’s Accts. £0 4s 9 1/2d
Sunday May 5th 1765
To Mr. Smalley Schoolmaster £0 5s 6d
To Rich’d. Mercer of Kirkham £0 7s 0d
To An Apprentice Fee and Charges of Binding John Livesay of Manchester & his Father ………. In Manchester £0 13s 6d
To Wid. Bradshaw House Rent £1 7s 9d
To Expences at Several times about Wid: Bradshaw and Wid. Mercer £0 1s 6d
To Wid: Bradshaw 3 weeks pay at 3s per £0 9s 0d
To Rob’t. Swain for Attending of Mr. Smalley £0 2s 0d
£3 6s 3d
Sunday June 2nd
To Rich’d. Mercer £0 7s 0d
To Mr. Smalley £0 1s 0d
To Widow Anderton House Rent £0 15s 0d
To p’t. of Widow Duckworth’s House Rent £1 1s 0d
To Wid. Duckworth £0 2s 0d
To Expended at Several times about Matching Henry Bradshaw and ab’t. the children After Marriage £0 2s 0d
To Wid. Bradshaw for 4 weeks pay 1s 2d to Cloth’s for children in Case she was Married 9s £1 1s 0d
22nd To 4 Loads of Coals for Widow Mercer £0 2s 4d
To Jeremiah Spencer Expen’d in going to Burnley about Jeremiah Spencer family Horse and self £0 2s 0d
£3 13s 1d
Sunday July 7th 1765
To Rich’d Mercer £0 7s 0d
To Wid: Bradshaw for 7 weeks at 10d per you’l find this due £0 10s 6d
To Expended at John Hoyles when I bargain’d ab’t Bradshaw Child’n £0 1s 0d
16th To Mr. Bleasdells ffee abt. John Mercer’s Settle’nt: £0 3s 6d
To Rich’d Mercer a pr. of Breeches £0 6s 7d
To Swain for attending of Mr. Smalley £0 2s 0d
To Jeremy Spencer Wife 2s. Meat 6d. £0 2s 6d
£1 13s 1d
Sunday Augst. 4th 1765
To Rich’d. Mercer £0 7s 0d
To Mr. Smalley £0 3s 0d
To pt. of Timothy Grimshaw House Rent £0 10s 0d
To Thos. Mercer for Fetching Jeremy Spencer Household Goods £0 3s 6d
To Expences in bringing the Goods & family Meat & Drink £0 2s 0d
To pd. Jeremy Spencers house Rent £2 3s 0d
To Meat for Jeremy: Spencer Wife and Children from Saturday to Monday £0 2s 6d
To given her to begin House with £0 2s 6d
To Robt. Swain & Jas. Hindle seting up her fire Iron £0 0s 4d
To Rob’t. Swain for attending of Mr. Smalley £0 2s 0d
To Wid. Bradshaw’s Children 4 Weeks @ 18d ? £0 6s 0d
£4 1s 10d
Sunday Sept. 1st 1765
To Rich’d. Mercer £0 7s 0d
To Wid. Bradshaw 4 Weeks at 18d £0 6s 0d
To my trouble for fetching Jeremy Spencer Wife and a Child on Horse Back from Burnley to Harwood £0 1s 0d
To Mr. Smalley £0 5s 0d
To Robert Swain for Attending of Mr. Smalley £0 2s 0d
£1 1s 0d
Oct.br 6th 1765
Rich’d. Mercer £0 7s 0d
To pd. one half of the Exchange about Gauger’s house £0 5s 0d
To a Load of Coals for Jeremiah Spencer’s Wife £0 0s 7d
To Mr. Smalley £0 4s 0d
To Rob’t. Swain for Attending of Mr. Smalley £0 2s 0d
To Wid. Bradshaw Children 4 Weeks at 18d £0 6s 0d
To 9 yds. of Cloth for Wid: Duckworth £0 7s 1.5d
£1 11s 8.5d
November 3rd 1765
To Rich’d. Mercer £0 7s 0d
To Wid: Anderton £0 1s 9d
To pd. for a pair of Breeches for Wid.: Bradshaw son £0 2s 0d
To a Sessions for Benjamin Haworth 1s Expences £0 1s 2d
13th To Wid: Mercer in Childbed £0 2s 0d
To Henry Bradshaw Children £0 6s 0d
To Jeremy Spencer in a Sickness £0 4s 0d
22nd To Jeremy Spencer Stil Badly & his wife for lying in £0 7s 0d
To William Mercer Wid: £0 3s 0d
To Jeremy Spencer yet sick £0 3s 0d
£1 16s 11d
Sunday Decebr. 1st
To Rich’d. Mercer £0 7s 0d
8th To Jeremy Spencer in a faver £0 5s 0d
10 Jane Anderton & Daught’r badly £0 3s 0d
15 To Jeremy Spencer badly £0 5s 0d
To old Rich’d Mercer at Preston a J’le of ale £0 0s 1.5d
22nd To Jeremy Spencer badly £0 5s 0d
To Do. £0 5s 0d
29th To Wid Mercer lower Town £0 2s 6d
31st To Wid. Anderton badly £0 2s 0d
A new shift for do: 2 1/2 yds at 12d yd and thred £0 2s 7.5d
To Wid Bradshaw children five Weeks £0 7s 6d
£2 4s 9d
Sunday January 5th 1766
To Rich’d. Mercer £0 7s 0d
To Wid: Anderton badly £0 1s 6d
To Mr. Smalley £0 5s 0d
To Robert Swain for Attending of Mr. Smalley £0 2s 0d
To Henry Bradshaw Children 4 Weeks £0 6s 6d
£1 2s 0d
Sunday Feby. 2nd
To Mr. Smalley 4s Coals 2s £0 6s 0d
To Rich’d. Mercer £0 7s 0d
To Wid. Duckworth £0 2s 0d
22nd To Wid: Anderton £0 1s 0d
To Rob’t. Swain for Attending of Mr. Smalley £0 2s 0d
To a New Spinning wheel for Wid: Mercer £0 1s 8d
To Henry Bradshaw Children £0 6s 0d
£1 5s 8d
Sunday March 2d 1766
To Rich’d. Mercer £0 7s 0d
To Mr. Smalley Schoolmaster £0 5s 0d
3d To Henry: Bradshaw Child Shifts £0 1s 6d
To Spent when I should first have bound Widow Anderton son apprentice £0 1s 0d
To Peter Whalley of Coln £0 1s 0d
To Heny Bradshaw Children 5 weeks pay £0 7s 6d
£1 3s 0d
To Rob’t. Swain for attend’g of Mr. Smalley £0 2s 0d
£1 5s 0d
Sunday April 6th
To Rich’d. Mercer £0 7s 0d
To Henry Bradshaw children £0 6s 0d
To Rich’d. Mercer a Secondhand Coat £0 4s 0d
15th To Shifts for Ann Giles & makeing 4s 4 1/2d Mak’g 8d £0 5s 0.5d
To one Meal’s meat when she came by the order £0 0s 2d
To given her to assist her £0 1s 0d
To Cloths bought of Mr. Holker for Geo: Anderton £0 10s 0d
To making 2/2d new shoes 2/8 £0 4s 10d
To a pr. of Stockings for Do. 12d Hat 14d £0 2s 2d
To New Shurst for Do. 3s 11d at —- £0 3s 11d
To Shurts making and thred £0 0s 11d
To Indentures making and Signing £0 5s 6d
To Apprentice Fee with Geo: Anderton £3 0s 0d
To Expences in Binding Anderton son £0 2s 0d
To Mr. Bleasdell for taking Ann Giles Examination in regard to her Settlement 3/6d Swearing her 1s £0 4s 6d
22d To my Expences 6d – at same time £0 0s 6d
26 To horse hire and expences in going to Coln to see Peter Whalley Family £0 2s 6d
27 To a Note Publishing to Acc’t. £0 0s 2d
To Paper £0 1s 0d
To Rob’t. Swain for Attending of Mr. Smalley £0 2s 0d
To Mr. Smalley £0 4s 0d
£6 7s 2d
An Abstract of each Month’s Pay
Collected 13 Leys at £4 16s 4d each £62 12s 4d
Rec’d. to Balance of the lower Town £2 1s 2.5d
Rec’d. £64 13s 6.5d
May £3 6s 3d
June £3 13s 4d
July £1 13s 1d
Aug’t. £4 1s 10d
Sept’r. £1 1s 0d
Oct’br. £1 11s 8.5d
Nov’r. £1 16s 11d
Decb’r. £2 4s 9d
Jany: £1 2s 0d
Feby: £1 5s 8d
Mar: £1 5s 0d
April £6 7s 2d
Disburst on the Poor £29 8s 8.5d
Disburst on Constable Acct. £11 19s 4d
Do. on Supervisor Acc’t. £16 0s 10d
my Wages £4 Exp. as usual 10s £4 10s 0d
Out of Pockett last year £0 4s 9.5d
£62 3s 8d
Paid £62 3s 8d
Due by — Town £2 9s 10.5d
To paid towards Ganger house Rent £ 3s 4d
£2 6s 6.5d
3d May 1766 The within acct. seen and allowed by us
Wm. Mercer
Wm. Bentley
the mark of X John Hindle
the mark of X James Fielden
Disburst upon the Constable Acc’t. by W. Aspden 1765
9th May To Assessing Land and Window Taxes £0 5s 5d
24 July To Precept £7 8s paid towards the same £4 10s 0d
24 July To Expences Horse hire Wages Warrant Millitius(?) about Jeremiah Spencer took the particulars £1 4s 0d
15 Aug’t. To Return to the Assize £0 2s 0d
15 Aug’t. To pd. a Messenger for Calling at the House of Correction about Jeremy Spencer £0 0s 3d
15 Aug’t. To Exp. with the Window peeper 1s a Second Survey 6d £0 1s 6d
15 Aug’t. To Spent upon the Collector, Ganger £0 5s 0d
15 Aug’t. To a Liberator to bring Jeremy Spencer from the House of Correction 2s ffees 7s Expences 2s 6d £0 11s 6d
15 Aug’t. To Passingers 8d do: another time 6d £0 1s 2d
15 Aug’t. To a Sunday War’t. 2s paid with freehold List 1s £0 3s 0d
10 Octb’r. To a Respit 5s a treat to Mr. Bleasdle 1s £0 6s 0d
21st Nov’r. To Passingers £0 0s 4d
3d Deb’r. To 3 do. £0 0s 5d
To pd. door Keeper at the meeting of the Deputy Sen. Lieuten’t £0 0s 2d
7 Deb’r. To Supervisors Instructions & Sunday Warr’t: £0 6s 1d
Feby To the Duplicates of the Militiau and delivering them £0 5s 0d
? To Passingers £0 0s 6d
23d To a Precept 51s 5d paid towards the same £2 11s 5d
10th March To Passingers £0 0s 4d
16 March To do. £0 0s 6d
7th April To Mr. Parker Fee for Attending Clithero Court to move for a respit for the lower —– Indited £0 3s 6d
7th April To Paid Court Fees 4s 6d £0 4s 6d
7th April To Wages and Expences for going to Clithero Court and other before the Court to see the Inditement: £0 3s 0d
22d April To Pd. for overseers appointment & Sunday Warr’t. £0 4s 6d
£11 18s 1d
To paid to Ballances with the lower Town £ 1s 3d
£11 19s 4d